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On September 12, 1982, the Olympic Olympic Terms in Athens was seen at the European Athletics Championships Historical Sustainability Sports when the Portuguese Rosa Mota Won the women’s marathon run for the first time in the value race program.
A year later at the first World Cup in Helsinki, the winner was Norway GRETE WAITZwho’s his country Ingrid Kristiansen With the 1980s, the women’s marathon was globally highly respected endurance sports.
The leap was huge both mentally and medium, as the longest running distance of women in the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games had been 40,695 meters shorter, 1,500 meters.
In 1978, Kristiansen still belonged to her girl name Christensen Norwegian team at the World Ski Championships in Lahti.
There was also a history of February 25, when women were first allowed to start at a 20 -kilometer trip in the value race.
During and during the Games, they speculated how they would overcome the horrors of a new trip in the Salpausselkä terrain.
Amusing reminiscence
The star skier of time, novelty trip fourth ranked Hilkka Riihivuori Remembering the atmosphere amused 47 years later.
– 20 kilometers was not a journey to us and nothing. First snow I often ski Helena (Olympic winner-world champion Back) with a 70 -kilometer loop.
-Sometimes it was 100 kilometers skiing, Riihivuori, who is still 50 kilometers from Lahti in 1978 with a 72-year-old, remembers.
About half a year before Rosa Mota won the Historical Marathon Riihivuori in Oslo said goodbye to her value-racing skiing career in Oslo.
He took bronze at 20 kilometers and his tenth World Cup or Olympic medal.
Seven years later, ski history was again made in Lahti, when women were first passed from the stadium to a 30-kilometer World Championship.
Marjo Matikainen Ranked third in the race, which was later won by profiled chairman of the Russian Ski Association Jelena Välbe.
While the 20-kilometer lifecycle in the value race was 10 years, 30 kilometers were skied at the World Cup and Olympic Games for as much as 34 years. The last winner was in the Planica World Cup on March 4, 2023 Ebba Andersson.
Only eight days thereafter, one ski racing glass was scattered as women made their debut in the Oslo World Cup 50 kilometers.
Norwegian won the competition for free skiing Ragnhild Hagawho finished two weeks after his career.
Last spring, women grate the same distance along the same distance along the trail, the traditional skiing. Then the winner was Swedish Frida Karlsson.
In the spring of 2022, the International Ski Association decided to harmonize men’s and women’s ski trips.
In the value races, women’s 50 kilometers will be skied for the first time on March 9 in Trondheim, where the historical world championship is in free technology, first and foremost Therese for Johaug.
Cheerful test guru
Oslo World Cup in their fifties was particularly happy to know more about the physiology and tolerance of female skiers than anyone else in the world: Doctor of Sports Sciences, Sports Physiologist Esa Hynynen.
For over 30 years, he has been driving skiers until full extractor at the KiHu Test Mat in Jyväskylä with various test batteries.
Hynyse’s data bank and scientific and field -level understanding of the subject are unmatched.
Over the years, the researcher often admits to wondering why it was precisely the equality work in skiing sports, while in other endurance sports, such as triathlon, swimming, athletics or ultra-running, there was no knowledge of such inequalities.
– When the woman first ran the marathon already 1967 in Boston, so wouldn’t 50 kilometers on skis have gone back then?
– And at least it would have gone decades ago. For some reason, equality work has been a bit of a few other sports in skiing, Hynynen ponders.
He does not talk about the mood, but on a science basis. Physiological research and practical experiences have long proven that long endurance performance is well -suited to women.
– Naturally, women have relatively more endurance cells than men. This feature begins to emphasize in endurance sports as the performance becomes longer.
– Then the need for these so -called slow muscle cells increases as they can withstand a long period of time. The longer the performance, the lower the percentage between women and men.
Faster than many golden men
Skiing is part of sports forms where the end times can never be directly compared to each other, such as running or swimming.
The final time is directly relevant to the outcome only in the intermediate departure and sprint time run, and the sport does not maintain record statistics, for example.
There are plenty of factors that influence the rest of the time: for example, weather conditions, the functioning of the equipment, the nature of the competition, the shape and skiing, the state of the product development of skis, creams and grinding, the level of doping control, the height of the track, or the load -bearing situation of the top skis.
Nonetheless, it is quite fascinating to compare the pace of women in two World Cup 50 kilometers of their advanced by taking a benchmark for the rest of the men from a modern period.
When Frida Karlsson won Holmenkollen in a traditional style last spring, her end time was 2.20.20.
Mika Myllylän The winning time at the Ramsau World Championships in 1999 was 2.18.08 and 1997 at the Trondheim World Cup 2.16.37.
Norwegian Petter Northug took the pot in the World Championship Falun in 2015 with 2.26.02. About his countrymen Frode Estil lingered in the gold competition at the Oberstdorf World Cup 2.30.10, Odd-Björn Hjelmeset 2007 in Sapporo 2.20.12.
Regularly less than two hours
For the first time in the free skiing, the free skiing was won in the value races in less than two hours at the Thunder Bay World Cup in 1995, Italy Silvio Fauner by the effort. Two hours in the value races have become five times since then.
When Ragnhild Haga skated to the Queen of Holmenkollen in 2023, he cut the finish line in 2.13.36. Ski history can be browsed until 1989 and the World Championships, so that there is a slower prize winning time in a childhood skiing at the time. It was Swedish Gunde Svanin 2.15.24.
Head coach of the Finnish Ski Team Teemu Pasanen Looking forward to the queen of Trondheim’s World Championships.
The differences in levels of huge
– The special feature of the women’s fifty is that when the level differences between the tip and the rest of the group are otherwise large, it is quite a bit of a long way to go.
Although Pasanen finds the trip in relatively hard World Championships and is likely to be challenging in the wet weather, the lactate hell is not a lactate.
– The problem with many athletes is that the experience of this trip has not yet accumulated. For example, it may lead to error assessments that take place after 30 kilometers.
– But in the big picture, this is and this becomes a very suitable journey for women. Their natural talent in long endurance performance has been scientifically demonstrated.
The head coach even hopes that there will be individuals in the Finnish group who will lose their heart on a novelty trip.
– Many specialize in sprints, some for mid -distance. I would find it very desirable that there are types of durability that even specialize in fifth.
Anne Kyllönen37, which did not fit into the Finnish World Cup in Trondheim, participated in the Oslo World Cup for 50 kilometers in 2024.
He says that the recovery of a 2.5 -hour ratchet has taken less than a week. Of course, the trip was familiar to training, but not as a race.
For the national team’s most experienced athlete, the glass ceiling broke up too late, but this is happy to advise its younger ones.
– It’s worth going to these in the spring To Lapponia skiing and similar. They give the body the hardness and information needed for the fifty and know what to do if you ever want to succeed in your training.